ASCII

See also: ascii

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

ASCII

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• ascii

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæski/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æski

Proper noun

ASCII

1. (computing) Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

   Synonym: US-ASCII

   • 1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218:

     Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

   • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 127:

     In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

Derived terms

• ArmSCII
• ASCII art
• ASCIIbetical
• ASCIIfication
• ASCIIfy
• ATASCII
• extended ASCII
• PETSCII
• pure ASCII text
• US-ASCII

 

Translations

Translations

Esperanto: Askio French: ASCII (fr) m Japanese: ASCII (asukī), アスキー (asukī) Marathi: आस्की (āskī), अ‍ॅस्की (a‍ĕskī) Portuguese: ASCII (pt) m

See also

• extended ASCII
• 7-bit
• EBCDIC
• Unicode
• UTF-7
• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• Appendix:Unicode

Further reading

• The official ISO standards document, standard 006.

Anagrams

• Isiac

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English ASCII.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ʃi/
• Rhymes: -aʃʃi

Noun

ASCII

1. ASCII

Anagrams

• sciai

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

ASCII

Wikipedia ^ja

Etymology

Borrowed from English ASCII.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) アスキー [áꜜsùkìì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [a̠sɨ̥kʲiː]

Proper noun

ASCII(アスキー) • (Asukī) 

1. (computing) ASCII (character encoding)

Derived terms

• ASCII(アスキー)ファイル (asukī fairu)

See also

• アスキーアート (asukī āto)

References

1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ASCII.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ki/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ki/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ki/

Proper noun

ASCII m

1. (computing) ASCII (a 7-bit character encoding)